hid

[oldmandon 1]

Is anyoen here running a HID setup in combination with Hella quad lights? if so how easy was it to fit?

[Lukey. 381]

yes. both are very easy to fit, the lights themselves are held in by 4 bolts each and the HID kits come in the bulb fitment your car is so its as easy as fitting a normal bulb, the only extra bit you need to do is put a slit into the seal on the back and poke the HID bulbs 2 wires through.

[oldmandon 1]

Any chance you could post a pic? what bulbs are they, ie H3, H1? They seem to have 2 different bulbs fitted to them (the quads I mean)

[Lukey. 381]

i can get some up tomorrow for you, tell me what you want pics of

[oldmandon 1]

Cool, if possible, I'd like to see what type of bulbs you're using, and where you mounted the balast pods. Which lamp does the HID go into? As you can probably guess, I have no idea about quads or HID ecept it looks good!!!!!

Thanks for your assistance

[CALICO 130]

they are H1 outer lights and H7 inner but i wouldnt bother doing the inner if you have crosshairs inside the light

[dman78 1]

bulb type should be marked on the bulb mate

[oldmandon 1]

I don't have any bulbs in my lights, they came with none. Also isn't the H7 bulb a 3 pin hobby? As all the bulb conectors seem to be female single spade connectors????

[Lukey. 381]

think mine are h1 and h3, ill confirm when i have a look for you

[oldmandon 1]

Thanks mate. Oh got the coil pack thanks.... Lovely packing job I must say!!!!!!!

[Lukey. 381]

oh good stuff, i always seem to over pack cos i know what these parcel monkeys are like lol

just uploading the pics now

[Lukey. 381]

I mounted the OS ballast underneath the air filter its a nice big flat surface

For the NS i couldnt find a decent place so made my own little shelf for it to sit on

The HID bulb fits in the same way the normal bulb does, you get the fitment of bulb that your lights require, my dipped beam in the projector lens is H1 fitment

The small slit i made in the rear seal to allow the bulb to sit nicely and allow the 2 HID bulb wires through, the small round seal comes on the HID bulb and i just push that up nice and tight and it makes a good seal.

The main beam are H3 ive just got a normal style blue glass bulb in there, never really need the main beam though the dipped are bright enough

Using the standard headlight connector just running the ballasts power on/off from the dipped beam feed, and actually powering the ballasts using a relay kit connected directly to the battery

The yellow/brown wires on the left that are heatshrinked up are the standard dipped bulb power wires and the red/black they are connected to are the ballasts on/off signal wires

IMPORTANT

one other thing you need to do is (if it applies to your car as there are different headlight switches and some dont require it) in order not to blow your HIDs is to stop the dipped beam coming on half power when sidelights come on which involves just disconnecting a yellow wire in the back of the headlight switch, i made a topic explaining how i did this here, takes 5 mins to do http://www.vr6oc.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?356917

[oldmandon 1]

Exelllent job. Thanks lukey. Now I can order my hid kit....

[VeedubVR 0]

How do you know if you will need to disconnect the yellow wire?

I still need to buy some HIds, especially now its winter. Standard mk3 headlights are like candle sticks.

[Lukey. 381]

its all in the linked topic